Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264938AbTFQWCU (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:02:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264948AbTFQWCT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:02:19 -0400 Received: from netmail02.services.quay.plus.net ([212.159.14.221]:37094 "HELO netmail02.services.quay.plus.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264938AbTFQWCL (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:02:11 -0400 From: "Riley Williams" To: "Sam Ravnborg" , "Linus Torvalds" Cc: Subject: RE: [PATCH] kbuild: Document lib-y Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:16:15 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20030608180113.GA3987@mars.ravnborg.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1469 Lines: 43 Hi Sam. > Hi Linus, documentation for the newly added lib-y. Minor grammatical tweaks to the same... > ===== Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt 1.8 vs edited ===== > --- 1.8/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt Sun Mar 16 06:52:28 2003 > +++ edited/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt Sun Jun 8 > @@ -214,20 +214,33 @@ > modules exporting symbols. > See also Documentation/modules.txt. > > ---- 3.5 Library file goals - L_TARGET > +--- 3.5 Library file goals - lib-y > > - Instead of building a built-in.o file, you may also > - build an archive which again contains objects listed in $(obj-y). > - This is normally not necessary and only used in lib/ and > - arch/$(ARCH)/lib directories. > - Only the name lib.a is allowed. > + Objects listed with obj-* is used for modules or ^^ That should be "are" ? > + are combined in a built-in.o for that specific directory. ^^^ That shouldn't be there. Best wishes from Riley. --- * Nothing as pretty as a smile, nothing as ugly as a frown. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.490 / Virus Database: 289 - Release Date: 16-Jun-2003 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/